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📁 Yann LeCun says that AGI does not exist and is a poorly defined concept built around an idealized view of human intelligence. He argues that humans are highly specialized, good at navigating the physical and social world, but weak at many other tasks. We seem general only because...

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Yann LeCun just said something on Lex Fridman’s podcast that reframes the entire alignment debate. He wasn’t describing a future risk. He was describing you. LeCun: “We put in place laws to prevent people from doing bad things because spontaneously they would do those bad things.” The father of modern deep learning just told the world that humans are misaligned by default. Without laws. Without punishment. Without external force. People will optimize for themselves at the expense of everything around them. That’s not a warning about artificial intelligence. That’s a diagnosis of the species that built it. LeCun pointed to HAL 9000. HAL killed its crew. Not out of malice. Not out of hatred. Out of pure optimization with no constraint. LeCun: “You give an objective to a machine and the machine, given the power, will do stupid things just to achieve this objective, or damaging things to achieve its objective.” Then he named what we already built to solve this exact problem. Civilization. Every law ever written is a confession that humans, left unchecked, will pursue their own objectives at the cost of everyone around them. Every prison is proof the objective function failed. Every courtroom is a patch for behavior we couldn’t prevent in advance. LeCun: “The legal code is called ‘code.’ So that tells you something.” That line deserved far more weight than it got. Legal code and computer code serve the exact same function. They constrain an intelligent agent from doing what it would do unchecked. One runs on silicon. The other runs on flesh. The distance between them shrinks every quarter. LeCun: “There is this idea somehow that it’s a new thing for people to try to design objective functions that align with the common good. But no, we’ve been writing laws for millennia and that’s exactly what it is.” Here is the uncomfortable math. We’ve had thousands of years to align human intelligence with the common good. We still haven’t finished. Wars. Fraud. Exploitation. Corruption. Every headline you read tomorrow morning is proof the alignment problem for biological intelligence remains unsolved after millennia of iteration. And now we are building a second form of intelligence. One that thinks faster, scales without limit, and never forgets. The question was never whether machines could become misaligned. The question is whether we can align something smarter than the species that still can’t align itself.

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